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* Add variable LIVEUID to define the name of the 'live' user account....In 'make_slackware_live.conf' you can give that variable "LIVEUID" another value than the default "live" if you want to create a Live Edition where the Live user account is not called "live". Eric Hameleers2016-07-201-13/+17
* slackpkg+: switch from 'ktown_testing' to 'ktown'. Eric Hameleers2016-07-201-4/+4
* make_slackware_live.sh: remove a leftover ']'. Eric Hameleers2016-07-031-1/+1
* Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.1.1.1.1 Eric Hameleers2016-07-011-1/+1
* Adjust the URL of the Mate repository, in light of the upcoming release. Eric Hameleers2016-07-011-2/+2
* Add LUKS passphrase entry support for more types of USB keyboard. Eric Hameleers2016-06-241-1/+1
* KDE launcher bug has been fixed in Slackware 14.2. Eric Hameleers2016-06-241-9/+12
* Add support for multilib....New parameter '-M' to the "make_slackware_live.sh" script will add a squashfs module "0020-slackware_multilib-VERSION-ARCH.sxz" to the iso, its contents based on the ./pkglists/multilib.* package repo definitions. Only for the x86_64 architecture of course. If you already have a USB Live, you can simply copy this module into the directory "/liveslak/addons" to transform your pure 64bit Slackware Live Edition into a multilib variant. Eric Hameleers2016-06-241-1/+19
* Fix generating the 32bit Slackware Live ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-06-151-6/+6
* Set ARCH: needed when calling slackpkg for 32bit Live OS on 64bit host. Eric Hameleers2016-06-151-2/+2
* Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.0.1.1.0 Eric Hameleers2016-06-151-2/+1
* Try to support UEFI hybrid ISO better in the xorriso commandline. Eric Hameleers2016-06-151-1/+3
* Deal properly with the user enabling any optional/addon kernel modules....When the user loads a non-system squashfs module (for instance from the optional or addons subdirectories) and this contains kernel modules, then the kernel must be made aware using a "depmod -a" call. The previous implementation did this at the end of rc.local but that was too late in the boot process: the kernel needs to be aware of the new modules straight from the start, so that udev can enable the hardware which is supported by these new kernel drivers on time. So the depmod call was moved to the live init script (inside the initrd). Eric Hameleers2016-06-151-17/+0
* On 32bit, use the non-SMP kernel by default....You can define SMP32="YES" in the script or in its .conf file, if you want your Live ISO to boot the 32bit SMP kernel instead. Eric Hameleers2016-06-101-2/+2
* VERSION bump to 1.0.2. Eric Hameleers2016-06-031-1/+1
* Add the 'live' user account to additonal groups "dialout,games,disk"....The "dialout" group is required for working with 3G USB modems and ppp connections. If the user wants to play UNIX games, then the "games" group membership is needed. And "disk" group was added for good measure. Eric Hameleers2016-06-031-1/+1
* XFCE: do not copy optional/ or addons/ content into the XFCE ISO....We need to maintain strict size requirements to keep the maximum size of the XFCE ISO below 737.280.000 bytes (703 MB) so that it fits on CDROM. You can always add optional/addons modules later if you create a USB Live medium out of the ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-05-291-8/+11
* Some cosmetic cleanups. Eric Hameleers2016-05-291-9/+8
* make_slackware_live.sh: add "-X" switch to generate the ISO with xorriso....For some people, an ISO generated with xorriso instead of using mkisofs/isohybrid is more compatible with other tools or hardware. You need to install xorriso separately, it is not included with Slackware. Eric Hameleers2016-05-291-26/+58
* VERSION bump to 1.0.1. Eric Hameleers2016-05-281-1/+1
* XFCE: take into account that the 32bit ISO does not contain a SMP kernel....In order to successfully generate a 32bit ISO of the small XFCE variant, the variable SMP32 needs to be set to "NO" because the package for the SMP kernel will not be added (due to size constraints). Example commandline to achieve this: SMP32=NO ./make_slackware_live.sh -d XFCE -a i586 Eric Hameleers2016-05-271-1/+5
* slackpkg+: my package repository is no longer hosted on taper but on bear....The URLs mentioning 'taper' instead of 'bear' will still work because the webserver on taper will do automatic redirection to bear. Eric Hameleers2016-05-191-3/+3
* Slackware Live Edition: version 1.0.0....I think this 'liveslak' product is in a pretty stable state now. 1.0.0 Eric Hameleers2016-05-171-1/+1
* Call 'depmod' when a loaded optional/addon contains kernel modules. Eric Hameleers2016-05-171-3/+17
* Fix logic errors in 'if' statements when looking for wildcard files. Eric Hameleers2016-05-171-3/+3
* Disable the SSH daemon by default and use a tweak to start it on demand....The passwords for users 'live' and 'root' are easy to guess. When you use the Slackware Live Edition on a public network, you do not want people to use an exposed SSH login. If you still want to have the SSH daemon enabled on boot, use the 'tweak' boot parameter and provide a 'ssh' value as follows: "tweak=ssh" This can be combined with other tweaks of course, all comma-separated. Eric Hameleers2016-05-171-1/+2
* Bump VERSION to 0.9.1. Eric Hameleers2016-05-131-1/+1
* Fixes for the broken 'load/noload' boot parameters and rootcopy location....Provided by GigglesUK, thanks. Eric Hameleers2016-05-121-1/+1
* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.9.0....And it is ready for a stable 1.0.0 version if no further bugs are uncovered. 0.9.0 Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+1
* Add PXE server infrastructure....See the README.txt for instructions on how to use the 'pxeserver' script and what it can do for you. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-0/+19
* Silence one "cd -". Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+1
* Update the 'timeconfig' script in make_slackware_live.sh, not in liveinit. Eric Hameleers2016-04-291-0/+9
* Do not specify heads/sectors when calling "isohybrid -u"....The resulting ISO will boot on real hardware as well as in virtualizers like QEMU, VirtualBox and VMWare Player, despite the warning shown by isohybrid that the ISO has more than 1024 cilynders and not all BIOSes will be able to boot it. Specifying sectors/heads to stay "standard compliant" will generate ISO files that fail to boot in VirtualBox if the ISO filesize is larger than roughly 1 GB, spitting out the error "VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED". Eric Hameleers2016-04-271-17/+1
* Deal with custom timezones (non-UTC) in KDE4 and PLASMA5. Eric Hameleers2016-04-271-0/+19
* make_slackware_live.sh: accept custom ISO filename without full pathname. Eric Hameleers2016-04-241-3/+3
* Do not bail out if there are no X apps in the ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-04-221-1/+3
* make_slackware_live.sh: add parameter to specify custom ISO name....New parameter: -O outfile => Full path to a custom filename for the ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-04-221-9/+16
* Allow CONFFILE to be specified as an environment variable. Eric Hameleers2016-04-211-1/+1
* make_slackware_live.sh: fixes for kernel detection & selection on 32bit arch. Eric Hameleers2016-04-201-8/+26
* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.8.0.0.8.0 Eric Hameleers2016-04-191-1/+1
* make_slackware_live.sh: also add dependencies of network modules to initrd. Eric Hameleers2016-04-191-2/+27
* Add a post-install customization hook to 'setup2hd'....A new file 'setup2hd.local' has been added to the liveslak sources. If you do not touch that one, it will be copied to: /usr/share/${LIVEMAIN}/setup2hd.$DISTRO.sample and serve as just that, a sample script. If on the other hand you rename the file to 'setup2hd.$DISTRO' before generating your ISO image ($DISTRO being the name of your own distro, like 'CINELIVE'), then this file will be installed in the ISO as /usr/share/${LIVEMAIN}/setup2hd.$DISTRO and this will be sourced by 'setup2hd' providing you a custom post-install customization hook for your own Live distro. Usage instructions are inside 'setup2hd.local'. Eric Hameleers2016-04-171-0/+23
* Use XZ compression for the initrd instead of GZIP....This shrinks the initrd back from 22 to 17 MB in size. Also, a redundant copy of the initrd was removed from the '0000-slackware_boot' module, reducing the ISO size with an additional 17 MB. These two modifications compensate for the increased size due to addition of network modules and firmware (which are needed for network boot). Goal reached: the XFCE ISO still fits on CDROM media. Eric Hameleers2016-04-131-7/+27
* Add NFS root support....It is now possible to PXE-boot the Slackware Live Edition. Extract the content of the ISO to (for instance) a new directory called 'slackware-live' below your TFTP server's /tftproot directory and then add lines like this to your pxelinux.cfg/default file: label liveslak kernel slackware-live/boot/generic append initrd=slackware-live/boot/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 kbd=us tz=Europe/Amsterdam locale=us_EN.utf8 nfsroot=192.168.0.1:/tftpboot/slackware-live hostname=pxelive Two new boot parameters have been added to support a NFS root: * nfsroot => mandatory parameter defines the IP address of the NFS server and the path to the extracted content of Slackware Live Edition. * nic => parameter defining the driver for the network card (optional and usually not needed because UDEV will figure out the driver for you), the interface name (optional), the IP configuration method (static IP or DHCP), and in case of a static IP, the required parameters ipaddress, netmask and an optional gateway. Note that the 'nic' parameter is optional if you have a DHCP server in your LAN: Slackware Live will figure out what the interface name is. Syntax of these parameters: nfsroot=ip.ad.dr.ess:/path/to/liveslak nic=<driver>:<interface>:<dhcp|static>[:ipaddr:netmask[:gateway]] Example use of these parameters: nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/tftproot/slackware-live nic=auto:eth0:static:10.0.0.21:24: nic=:eth1:static:192.168.1.6:255.255.255.248:192.168.1.1 Eric Hameleers2016-04-131-1/+36
* Umount LIVE_ROOTDIR's sub-mounts properly on emergency cleanup. Eric Hameleers2016-04-121-0/+3
* Fix the 'setup2hd' script's method of Live content installation....In the original version of the script, the squashfs modules' contents would be extracted one after the other. However this disregards any package or file deletions inbetween modules. As a result, e.g. a PLASMA5 installation to disk using 'setup2hd' would leave several artefacts in removed_scripts and removed_packages and probably in other locations too. The overlay is now constructed somewhat differently, so that 'setup2hd' can access the full read-only filesystem properly; it will copy this content to the harddisk using rsync. A progress indicator will show the stats of files that are actually being transferred. At the same time, the 'setup2hd' script's language settings are now hard-coded by setting 'LC_ALL' and LANG to "C". Slackware's setup scripts parse command output and expect english texts there, but when you selected a different language when booting your Live OS, this would confuse e.g. 'liloconfig' to the extent that it failed to find the Linux partitions. Eric Hameleers2016-03-291-1/+1
* Fix a bug in the program flow related to CONSFONT....If the predefined console font (CONSFONT variable) was not found on the system, the make_slackware_live.sh script would abort with an error. Eric Hameleers2016-03-231-6/+7
* Add support for 32-bit UEFI boot (disabled by default)....This requires functionality in grub which is currently not enabled in Slackware's grub package. If you want a 32-bit Live ISO that boots on UEFI computers, you need to recompile Slackware's grub with the patch for grub.SlackBuild which you can find in the ./patches subdirectory. Then you need to set the variable "EFI32" to "YES" in the 'make_slackware_live.sh' script and (re-)generate your 32-bit ISO. The resulting 32-bit Live ISO will be UEFI-bootable. Eric Hameleers2016-03-181-42/+67
* New parameters to specify Slackware version and architecture....The 'make_slackware_live.sh' script now has two extra parameters: -a arch Specify machine architecture (default: 'x86_64'). Use i586 for a 32bit ISO, x86_64 for 64bit. -z version Specify the Slackware version (default: 'current'). Eric Hameleers2016-03-181-26/+42
* Further expand the use of DISTRO variable to customize the Live ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-03-151-3/+18